yet much of the non-coding genome is transcribed into RNA. Over the past few decades, scientists have discovered that these non-coding RNAs mediate essential functions in healthy cells — and ...

A research team led by Rice University's Yang Gao has uncovered new insights into the molecular mechanisms of ADAR1, a ...

There is an urgent need for precision immunotherapy strategies that simultaneously target both tumor cells and immune cells ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

Bioluminescent luciferase enzymes have historically been too dim to use as probes in living tissue. But recent advances have ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed "tomoseqr"—a new software tool that enables easy estimation of the ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Ribonucleic acid, commonly known as RNA, is involved in many biological functions, and some, including gene silencing, are utilitized to cure diseases. RNA has recently gained attention as a ...

This view is now changing given the recent progress and scientific breakthroughs in understanding the fundamental biology and function of RNA, opening the door to RNA targeted small molecule drug ...

Similarly, cells splice RNA in different ways to produce a variety of proteins from a single gene, fine-tuning their function based on need. However, when cancer rewrites the script, this process goes ...

A research team led by Rice University’s Yang Gao has uncovered new insights into the molecular mechanisms of ADAR1, a protein that regulates ribonucleic acid (RNA) induced immune responses. Their ...